HATE CRIMES! Muslim Woman Attacked, Held At Gun Point In Elmhurst, IL

HATE CRIMES! Muslim Woman Attacked, Held At Gun Point In Elmhurst, IL

by amad

Sun Oct 12, 2008 at 12:32:02 PM PDT


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/12/151932/42/47/628477

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Good job getting the imbeciles riled up.

And if the story turns out to be completely true I'll feel bad later for having doubts. But, right now from my reading of it my gut is telling me that this sounds like one of those sad desperate stories where someone claims to be a victim of something that didn't happen. To draw attention to their cause, themselves, whatever.

And I could very well be wrong. Certainly circumstances are right for something like this to happen. So far this particular story isn't smelling right to me.

Or do they just show up when the LGBT community lobbies to be added?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-elmhurst-folo-both-11oct12,0,129065.story

Tensions that had been boiling at Elmhurst College spilled over this week amid reports that a Muslim student had been physically assaulted by a masked gunman.

The 19-year-old sophomore said she was hit with a gun in a bathroom in the college's science center Thursday night, authorities said. Anti-Muslim graffiti was written on the wall, authorities said, similar to a threat written on the same student's locker the week before that said: "Die Muslims, Rid us of your filth."

As officials at the private college affiliated with the United Church of Christ on Friday called the incident a hate crime, hundreds of students rallied to show solidarity with their Muslim peers, who are about 25 of the school's 3,300 students.

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After students were outraged by the graffiti on the woman's locker, they staged a second rally Thursday, and the woman read a poem she had written about the events. Afterward, she said she was attacked.

"This is a blow against our entire community," Elmhurst College President Alan Ray told students at Friday's rally.

always found with it is that it is unbelievably flat, prairie flat, but in the times that I have visited there I have never had the sense that there was a prevalent hatred for Muslims.

Let's just hope that the incident is investigated, taken care of and that the perpetrator(s) are dealt with.